Cult of Gods

Xochiquetzal

Aztec (Mexica) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
flowers, love, craft
Symbols and attributes
Flowers; quetzal
Codex Borbonicus, p. 9, a Mexica calendar book painted around the time of the Spanish conquest.
Codex Borbonicus, p. 9, a Mexica calendar book painted around the time of the Spanish conquest.

Key myth

Goddess of beauty, patron of weavers and artists. In some stories she was Tlaloc's wife before Tezcatlipoca took her away.

Primary sources

  • Florentine Codex Book 1
  • Histoyre du Mechique

All sources for the Aztec (Mexica) pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

OmeteotlTezcatlipocaQuetzalcoatlCoatlicueTlalocChalchiuhtlicueMictlantecuhtliMictecacihuatlXipe TotecXochiquetzalHuitzilopochtliCoyolxauhquiTonatiuh

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.Hindu

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Xochiquetzal: love, desire and fertility, craft, smiths and making. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Freyr

peace, fertility, sunshine

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Egyptian

Hathor

love, music, joy

Egyptian

Ptah

craftsmen, creation by speech

Mesopotamian

Enki / Ea

fresh water, wisdom, craft

Hindu

Parvati

power (shakti), marriage, mountains

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